On This Day in History

The Georgia Commission on the Holocaust's educational series On This Day in History provides summaries of historical events as the anniversaries fall on the current calendar. Be sure to follow along on Twitter and Facebook for daily updates and further information like photos, maps, and videos.

Auguste van Pels, one of the inhabitants of the Secret Annex, is deported from Raguhn (a subcamp of Buchenwald, Germany) to the Theresienstadt "camp ghetto." It is believed she died en route or shortly upon arrival.